When working on the conversion settings, use the preview in the right-hand part of the page.

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Formats

The list of the available delimiter-separated values formats is shown. Each format is a named set of corresponding conversion settings. Select the format whose settings you want to view or edit.

Use , , and to create, delete and reorder the formats; to create a copy of the selected format.

Value separator

Select or type the character for separating individual values.

Row separator

Select or type the character for separating rows.

Null value text

The text to be used as a value if a cell contains null (an unknown value).

Add row prefix/suffix

Row prefix and suffix are character sequences which in addition to the row separator indicate the beginning and end of a row.

If necessary, click the link and specify the row prefix and suffix in the fields that appear.

Quotation

Each line in the area under Quotation is a quotation pattern (see Quote values). A quotation pattern includes:

The left quotation character, the one inserted before a value.

The right quotation character, the one inserted after a value; usually, the same as the left quotation character.

An escape method or character for the cases when the quotation character is part of a value. E.g. Escape: duplicate means that if a quotation character occurs within a value, it is doubled. (You can specify your own escape character instead.)

If there is more than one pattern, the first of the patterns is used.

Use , , and to create, delete and reorder the patterns.

To start editing an existing pattern, just click the pattern of interest.

Quote values

Specify in which cases the values should be quoted (i.e. enclosed within quotation characters).

When needed. A value is quoted only if it contains the value and/or the row separator.

Always. Any value is quoted in its text representation.

Trim whitespaces

If this check box is not selected, the Unicode whitespace characters that precede and follow the value separators are treated as parts of the corresponding values. If this check box is selected, the corresponding whitespace characters are ignored or removed.

First row is header

If this check box is selected, the first row is treated as containing column names. The settings that appear under Header Format have the same meanings as the ones above but are applied to the first row.

First column is header

If this check box is selected, the first column is treated as containing row names.